On the causal propagation of fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/10/101zbMATH Open0935.83008arXivgr-qc/9904055OpenAlexW1974247876MaRDI QIDQ4935658FDOQ4935658

Authors: Göran Bergqvist, José M. M. Senovilla 

Publication date: 10 May 2000

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By using geometric methods and superenergy tensors, we find new simple criteria for the causal propagation of physical fields in spacetimes of any dimension. The method can be applied easily to many different theories and to arbitrary fields (such as scalar or electromagnetic ones). In particular, it provides a conservation theorem of the free gravitational field in all N-dimensional spacetimes conformally related to Einstein spaces (including vacuum solutions). In the case of general relativity, our criteria provide simple proofs and a unified treatment of conservation theorems for neutrinos, photons, electrons and all other massless and massive free spin n/2 fields. The uniqueness of the solution to the field equations also follows from our treatment under certain circumstances.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904055

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zbMATH Keywords

superenergy tensorsspacetimes conformally related to Einstein spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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